Monday Moneroworld Digest 2015-02-09

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Like I said, I'm going to try and compile all the fun stuff that has happened in MoneroWorld (someone buy that domain!) in the past week, so the fluffyponies and farting unicorns and latapies can keep doing what they're doing, and us non-devs can keep finding bugs. If you can't code, you should try and run the code. If you can document that something doesn't work, and specifically how its not working, that can really help the core dev team.

Code

Official stuff that happened on github ( I literally copied the pulse page)

Random observations

( I assume that some know what this means, and folks like me, well, we don't)

Something goin on with wall flags, and perhaps cleaning up pedantics in the next 6 months. Its a good thing too, because those pedantics, well, they'll just get to yah. Little pedantic bunnies under the radiator.

Someone proposes sophia, a database thinger. I get excited, because it requires no dependencies, and as a noob trying to compile monero, dependencies = hours of googling. . Flufflypony responds, "Sophia was one of the embedded databases we initially considered, but ultimately went for LMDB because it is better suited to our workloads"

David latapie developed the donation address into a landable webpage donate.monero.cc

A metaphor for monero's privacy is spawned: “If you want the best off-road vehicle, you don't put a Camry on a lift kit and start tinkering with it to make it off road capable; you build an off road vehicle that was designed from scratch to be the best off-road vehicle available.”

Another “where the monday missives”? I post that I'm gonna do this. And here I am doin it.

TheKoziTwo drops a gif in the thread and gets the associated song stuck in my head for a good hour. (while talking about some code)

#monero

I didn't save the log (because I just figured out how to filter out people leaving / entering), but there was a F A N T A S T I C back and forth between some dude and the rest of the people in the channel, where the dude seemed stuck on the fact that because you can't trace Monero, its worthless as a currency, because then you can't tell that I sent my money to you (or something along those lines). For those of you that were there, you know what I'm talking about.

Stats

Market cap: 7011 BTC

Price: 0.00113623

24 hr volume: 61 BTC

Network hasrate: 11.97 Mh/sec

Difficulty: 753316388

Blockchain height: 429629

Last reward: 11.7072 XMR

Coingecko rank: 13

Future stats, if I can figure out how to manipulate text data from bitcointalk and hexchat easily:

With the help of technology, here comes the Prepaid Debit Card. This is a www.netspend.com card which you can swipe for any transactions. Banks and some other financial institutes can provide them to the common people.